io9.com - 2/3/2009
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How do you bring back a younger more light-cycle-friendly Jeff Bridges ? We've dug up some details on exactly how Disney may be digitizing Bridges to bring the Flynns together, and they've spared no expense. After last year's amazing Tron 2.0 test footage premiered at San Diego's Comic Con ...
slashfilm.com - 2/3/2009
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slashfilm.com —
io9 has gotten word that Jeff Bridges has
been sent up to Canada to get digitized so
that the Disney can create a younger digital clone of the actor for Tron 2 . According to the source, the high resolution scan picks up every little detail, and ...
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Jeff Bridges Gets Digitally Scanned/Cloned for Tron Sequel
blogs.amctv.com - 1/28/2009
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Despite Hollywood's enduring fascination with video games, only
in the past decade has the medium advanced enough
to become ripe for adaptations. Before then, Hollywood didn't see much narrative potential in the plotless, pixelated games that ...
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Tron and Wargames - Great Flicks Based on Fake Games
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Jeff Bridges Gets Digitally Scanned/Cloned for Tron Sequel
/Film » Sci-Fi —
... io9 has gotten word that Jeff Bridges has been sent up to Canada to get digitized so that the Disney can create a younger digital clone of the actor for Tron 2. According to the source, the high resolution scan picks up every little detail, and Disney will use the digital scans to make Bridges look younger in post, and even possibly implant the younger likeness on Bridges on a body double. ...
‘Tron 2.0′ test footage
We Are Movie Geeks » Science Fiction —
... Disney’s reboot/remake/sequel… whatever you wanna call it, of ‘Tron’ in that it seems they are having Jeff bridges digitized as a way to bring his younger self back for the role of Flynn. However, it seems Bridges may also have a “live” role as a villain of some sort.
Interesting, but the best part is this ‘Tron 2.0′ test footage from San Diego ComicCon last year…
[source: io9.com]
Tron 2 to Clone Jeff Bridges
SciFiCool.com | No Anal Probing Involved —
... of whether you grew up with the first “Tron” or not, the test footage for “Tron 2″ (then called “TR2N”) shown to audiences last year at Comic Con had to have gotten your light-cycle engines revving. if not, then you just don’t have a pulse. The footage all but promised a return by Jeff Bridge, reprising his role as Kevin Flynn from the first movie. Word from IO9 is that there won’t just be the older Flynn in the movie, but a younger version of him as well. How is that possible? I09 has your answer: A source reveals to io9 that Jeff Bridges has been sent up to Canada to be ...
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... Jeff Bridges Digitally Cloned for Tron 2.0 + Trailer to Premiere at SDCC Jeff Bridges has been sent up to Canada to be digitized for his role in "Tron 2.0". According to io9 , a plaster case has been created of Bridges: They will then take that 3D model and make him younger and then slap it on a body double in post. As this is only one cog in the machine, I can’t give a whole lot of detail. Canada scans actors and props to be used for various projects. These are very high resolution scans that pick up every wrinkle, face lift and scar on the actors body. Meanwhile, ...
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